Separatist Peoples wrote:"Hope your people didn't like fishing. Or boating. Or having access to surface freshwater. Because you sold about every riverbank and pond." Bell rolled his eyes contemptuously at the Anarchist ambassador.
"May as well ignore him, sir. I don't believe for a moment that the so-called ambassador from Wherever is telling the truth, that his nation sold millions and millions of square miles of its own land in the course of a day just to avoid compliance with a rather straight-forward, common sense, relatively low-cost initiative like this."